Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Over 10,000 unique and unpublished mine-related documents
are being made available for free download through the Idaho Geological
Survey’s mines interactive web map application. Reed Lewis, an IGS geologist pictured here,
leads the effort to preserve these documents and make them widely available to
the public through the mines app. The effort to process and scan the IGS
collection is funded in part by Idaho Department of Lands and the U.S.
Geological Survey’s National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation
Program. About half of the existing collection is now available online with new
scans added frequently.